you might look at http://www.alice.org/
"An educational software that teaches programming in a 3D environment" This project was started by the late Professor Randy Pausch- (the guy that did the "Last Lecture" that many of you have heard of). The environment is pretty cool. Everything is available for free. Pretty great what you can do with the environment. Check out the videos for an overview. Kevin On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:58 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote: > > Believe it or not I started with COBOL (what dad used) then quickly > onto K&R and finally BASIC. This book was the shit > http://www.digibarn.com/collections/books/basicgames/ but it's value > today is proly only nostalgic. > > > For today there are too many options. Depends on age and whether > child is self-motivated or if you're trying to get them to spend long > hours behind a computer keyboard instead of going outside and running > around :) > > Python, esp the iPython shell is nice. http://www.pygame.org/ > http://rur-ple.sourceforge.net/en/help.htm lots of other "python for > children" "python in education" resources, google around. > > This is nice and immediate http://writecodeonline.com/javascript/ and > I've been convinced that HTML/CSS/JS is the new BASIC. Everyone has a > web browser. But subjecting children to the DOM and cross-browser > issues borders on abuse. > > http://processing.org/ http://shoooes.net/ are visual and fun/easy. > Stuff exists like processing but for audio (Chuck > http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/07/71248). Not > sure if fun/easy applies to those though. > > > I'd point an older teenager who is already interested in programming > to the same resource I send anyone interested in learning programming > to. SICP > http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/ > > > -- Kevin Koym [email protected] +1.512.698.9328 mobile http://techranchaustin.com resources for early stage technology startups http://enterpriseteaming.com the tools and practices for loosely tied but highly coordinated teams http://kevinkoym.com/blog my personal blog http://kevinkoym.com/blog/book my book The Rise of the Enterprise Tribe http://praxsys.com your consulting partner for ad hoc, tiger team support "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God" (Matthew 5:9) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Refresh Austin" group. [ Posting ] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy We do not accept job posts from recruiters. [ Unsubscribe ] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] [ More Info ] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
